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Toward A Framework Of Audience Studies In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Is It Ever Too Late For Innocence? Finality, Efficiency, And Claims Of Innocence, George C. Thomas Iii, Gordon G. Young, Keith Sharfman, Kate B. Briscoe

Faculty Publications

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[Does it violate the Constitution] to execute a person who, having been convicted of murder after a full and fair trial, later alleges that newly discovered evidence shows him to be "actually innocent." ... [l]t is perfectly clear what the answer is: There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough) for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction.

Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Thomas, concurring in Herrera v. Collins.

Should innocent people be imprisoned as criminals? More …

Valuation Averaging: A New Procedure For Resolving Valuation Disputes, Keith Sharfman

Faculty Publications

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This Article follows in the spirit of Karl Llewellyn and his fellow drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code who sought to transform merchant norms into law. The merchant norms discussed here are the procedures that sophisticated firms contract for to resolve anticipated valuation disputes. The law proposed is a new procedure for resolving valuation disputes based on commercial valuation norms. More specifically, this Article proposes a new default valuation procedure, modeled on the algorithmic valuation clauses commonly used in the contracts of sophisticated firms, that would encourage parties to valuation disputes to introduce more plausible valuations into evidence and …

Did The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Work?, Michael A. Perino

Faculty Publications

In 1995 Congress passed the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (the PSLRA or the Act) to address abuses in securities fraud class actions. In the wake of Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and other high profile securities frauds, critics suggest that the law made it too easy to escape liability for securities fraud and thus created a climate in which frauds are more likely to occur. Others claim that the Act has largely failed because it did little to deter plaintiffs' lawyers from filing nonmeritorious cases. This article employs a database of the 1449 class actions filed from 1996 through 2001 to …

Enforcement Of Wto Rulings: An Interest Group Analysis, Mark L. Movsesian

Faculty Publications

The WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding ("DSU") provides that disputes are to be resolved in adversarial proceedings before impartial panels of experts. These panels have authority to decide whether members' laws conform to WTO requirements; members may appeal rulings to a permanent Appellate Body within the organization, which has the final say on questions of law and legal interpretation. Under the DSU, if a member fails to comply with a final ruling in a dispute, the prevailing party may retaliate by suspending trade concessions that it owes the offending member. This retaliation can continue until the offending member implements the WTO's …

Agora (Continued): Future Implications Of The Iraq Conflict Editors' Note, Lori Fisler Damrosh, Bernard H. Oxman

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From The Editors, Neal Lerner, Elizabeth Boquet

The Writing Center Journal

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The Writing Center Journal

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Lives And Stones: A Remembrance Of Wendy, Michael Spooner

The Writing Center Journal

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The Writing Center Journal

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The Writing Center Journal

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Diaspora And Deadlock, Miami And Havana: Coming To Terms With Dreams And Dogmas, Francisco Valdes

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Hard Law, Soft Law, And Non-Law In Multilateral Arms Control: Some Compliance Hypotheses, Richard L. Williamson Jr.

Articles

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Yawn: Heavy Rhetoric, Light Reform (And It Might Just Work), Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

A thorough examination of the much ballyhooed Sarbanes-Oxley Act reveals dominantly a federal codification of extant rules, regulations, practices, and norms. Despite advertising it as "the most far-reaching reforms of American business practices since the time of FDR," a soberly apolitical view sees the Act as more sweep than reform. Important are provisions calling for nine studies; redundant but much publicized were the certification requirements imposed during the summer of 2002; other moves are mere patchwork responses to precise transgressions present in the popularized scandals. The Act is far from trivial, however. A silver bullet relates to the structure and …

Presenting A New Instructional Tool For Teaching Law-Related Courses: A Contract Activity Package For Motivated And Independent Learners, Robin A. Boyle, Karen Russo, Rose Frances Lefkowitz

Faculty Publications

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Do you have motivated students in your classes who prefer to learn independently? Given the diversity of learning styles in law school students, you probably do! A Contract Activity Package (“CAP”) allows this kind of student to work at his or her own pace. It also provides options for all students to learn through their various modalities—visual, auditory, tactual, and kinesthetic.

We conducted empirical studies at two different universities in law-related classes and found that both classes, as a whole, learned content better by using the CAP than by using traditional classroom instruction. One of those studies, by Robin …

The Ftaia And Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Foreign Transactions Under The Antitrust Laws: The New Frontier In Antitrust Litigation, Edward D. Cavanagh

Faculty Publications

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The aggressive antitrust enforcement activities by the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division against international cartels in the last decade, coupled with the increasingly global character of commercial markets, have spawned significant private antitrust treble damages litigation in American courts by foreign plaintiffs. Not surprisingly, the jurisdictional reach of the Sherman Act has been a threshold issue in these cases. While jurisdictional questions are not new to American courts, this latest round of antitrust cases has posed novel issues of subject matter jurisdiction, including the extent to which foreign plaintiffs claiming antitrust damages based on foreign transactions may …

Employing Active-Learning Techniques And Metacognition In Law School: Shifting Energy From Professor To Student, Robin A. Boyle

Faculty Publications

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Teaching a law school class, whether it is doctrinal or skills-based, can be a tiring experience. At the conclusion of class, law professors often experience fatigue, partly from coming to a calm after being on-stage and partly from expending excessive energy lecturing or engaging students with the Socratic method. Law professors who are exhausted after a sixty or ninety-minute class, while their students sit passively except for random one-on-one questioning, are overworking. Chances are the majority of the students are under-performing because they are probably similar in their learning-style to students at other law schools, who do not learn …

Foreword: Revisiting Gilson And Kraakman’S Efficiency Story, Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Gilson and Kraakman's ‘Mechanisms of Market Efficiency’ is part of the canon of modem corporate law scholarship, one of a handful of articles that has profoundly influenced the way we think about the field. It is also enigmatic, warranting a fresh look by those who think they know what it says from some long-ago reading or second-hand references by other authors.

Leveling The Playing Field: Federal Rules Of Evidence 412 & 415: Evidence Class As A Platform For Larger (More Important) Lessons, Jane H. Aiken

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Teachers often approach Federal Rules of Evidence 412 and 415 with trepidation. After all, it means that a law teacher will have to talk about sex, with a group (often a large group) of law students - many of whom are in their early twenties and have never had a non-peer conversation about sex. It looks like a recipe for disaster. Let me suggest just the opposite - it offers the law teacher an opportunity to address perhaps one of the most important lessons of law school: the law only works if there is a level playing field.

Constitutional Legitimacy, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The problem of constitutional legitimacy is to establish why anyone should obey the command of a constitutionally-valid law. A lawmaking system is legitimate if there is a prima facie duty to obey the laws it makes. Neither "consent of the governed" nor "benefits received" justifies obedience. Rather, a prima facie duty of obedience exists either (a) if there is actual unanimous consent to the jurisdiction of the lawmaker or, in the absence of consent, (b) f laws are made by procedures which assure that they are not unjust. In the absence of unanimous consent, a written constitution should be assessed …

Answers (Tekzip) To Letter: The Ostracoda (Crustacea) Fauna Of Lakes Erikli Hamam, Mert, Pedina And Saka (İgneada, Kırklareli, Turkey) Külköylüoğlu, O., Usta, E., & Babaç, M.T. (2002) Turk. J. Zool. Volume: 26, İssue: 3, 263-263, Selçuk Altinsaçli

Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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Turkish Journal of Zoology

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On Stability Of Affine Blending Systems, Ruiyao Gao, Aidan O'Dwyer, Seamus Mcloone, Eugene Dermot Coyle Professor

Conference papers

This paper presents a novel approach to stability analysis of affine blending systems. The analysis is based on Quadratic Lyapunov functions. The approach considers the nonlinear offset term in affine blending systems as non-vanishing perturbations added to the corresponding nominal linear blending systems. The affine blending systems will be bounded if the corresponding linear blending system is exponentially stable. The bound is determined by an ultimate limit, which is proportional to the maximum of the offset terms of each affine system.

New Modified Smith Predictor Designs, Pauline Sourdille, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

By combining several existing modified Smith predictor structures, presented in a literature review, a generalised form of the Smith predictor is proposed. From this structure, excellent servo and regulator responses can be obtained by specifying three controller dynamic elements. Two new modified Smith predictor structures are presented with their associated tuning rules. The results of the simulations indicate that the two new designs give better overall responses than the original Smith predictor.

Comparison Of Process Identification Techniques In The Time And Frequency Domains, Tony Kealy, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

This paper describes ten methods to identify a mathematical model for a real process with a time delay. The process is the Process Trainer, PT326 from Feedback Instruments Limited. Six of the methods use step response data and one of the methods uses impulse response data for identification. Two of the methods use frequency response data and the final method uses information from relay-based experiments. The best results are obtained using a combined analytical and gradient method [6] in the frequency-domain and, in the time-domain, using the two-point algorithm [1] and a method proposed by Suganda et al. [5].

Analytical Ise Calculation And Optimum Control System Design, Tony Kealy, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

In control system theory, a performance index is a quantitative measure of the performance of a system and is chosen so that emphasis is given to the important system parameters. In this paper, the authors demonstrate two methods to determine analytically the ISE performance index value for a FOPDT process model under PI control. The ability of proportional/integral (PI) and proportional/integral/derivative (PID) controllers to compensate most practical industrial processes has led to their wide acceptance in industrial applications. The most direct way to set up PI/PID controller parameters is the use of tuning rules. The second part of this paper …

System Identification Using Higher Order Spectra, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

This communication will explore the use of particular types of frequency domain concepts, labelled higher order spectra, to help determine the frequency response of a process. This will allow the identification of the parameters of a single input, single output (SISO) model for a process (which includes a time delay), in both open loop and closed loop environments.

Speech-Adaptive Time-Scale Modification For Computer Assisted Language Learning, Olivia Donnellan, Elmar Jung, Eugene Coyle

Conference papers

In traditional foreign language learning programmes students are offered a tutor model characterised by slow, deliberate speech. This is insufficient to prepare them to cope with native, colloquial speech. By applying a timescale modification (TSM) algorithm to natural-speed, native speech, students have access to a more desirable, natural speech corpus which permits them to practise essential listening skills in a more focussed manner. This paper presents a method which allows slowing down speech without compromising the quality, pitch or naturalness of the slowed speech by applying different scaling factors to different types of speech segments. The new method is compared …

Attempting To Discuss Race In Business And Corporate Law Courses And Seminars, Cheryl L. Wade

St. John's Law Review

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The challenges of teaching corporate social responsibility and good corporate citizenship have shifted as political and social climates have changed in New York, the United States, and around the world. I discuss some of those challenges in this Article. My primary focus, however, is the challenge of talking about race in business and corporate law courses and seminars.